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• Location: West of Castle Clinton
• Description: Plaque on plinth
• Materials: Bronze, Israel limestone
• Dimensions: H: 2'9" W: 2'7"
• Cast: 1955
• Dedicated: 1955
• Donor: Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations, Inc.
• Inscription: A TRIBUTE TO / EMMA LAZARUS / POET-PATRIOT /---/ AUTHOR OF THE NEW COLOSSUS / THE SONNET INSCRIBED ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY /---/ THE NEW COLOSSUS. / NOT LIKE THE BRAZEN GIANT OF GREEK FAME, / WITH CONQUERING LIMBS ASTRIDE FROM LAND TO LAND. / HERE AT OUR SEA-WASHED, SUNSET GATES SHALL STAND / A MIGHTY WOMAN WITH A TORCH, WHOSE FLAME / IS THE IMPRISONED LIGHTNING, AND HER NAME / MOTHER OF EXILES, FROM HER BEACON-HAND / GLOWS WORLD-WIDE WELCOME; HER MILD EYES COMMAND / THE AIR-BRIDGED HARBOR THAT TWIN CITIES FRAME. / "KEEP ANCIENT LANDS, YOUR STORIED POMP!" CRIES SHE / WITH SILENT LIPS, "GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, / YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE. / THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE / SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST-TOST TO ME. / I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!" /---/ PRESENTED BY THE / FEDERATION OF JEWISH WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS, INC. / ON THE OCCASION OF THE / AMERICAN JEWISH TERCENTENARY /---/ THIS FOUNDATION STONE IS THE GIFT OF THE / STATE OF ISRAEL /

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The Battery